Bryan,

This is off-topic for this thread and actually is a response to something you've posted on the Book & Media Reviews site. It had to do with how "we", Civil War "Buffs", Historians, "Nuts" read Civil War books. I thought you'd find it funny to envision this picture, I'm currently reading and listening to Stephen Sears "Gettysburg". I walk about five miles daily for exercise and the time is well used listening to recorded books. I was concerned about how well I would retain the information, but honestly, I'm getting to where I'm able to get almost as much out of the recorded as the written form. However, after I listen to an hour or two, I go back to the recording and pull out the printed book, as well as some other books with maps or articles about the particular part of the story I'm in to compare accounts, sources and to make sense of the participants' movements, the chronology of events and the geography.

You're right "Bro" reading the way "we" read is work. But, I love this terrible sickness, still don't know exactly why I'm so passionate about the study of these people and this time, but I am.

Jim